heridate

– dating of papers used for manuscripts, prints and drawings

Paper is a fundamental part of our cultural heritage. Unfortunately, it often remains undated so it is not possible to determine the age of a piece of art or a document. Therefore, we try to find other ways to detect the age. Analysing paper and watermarks can give important indications.

The image above shows how a an paper- and watermark analysis can help to reorganize an Artist-oeuvre – here in this case of the so called „Egmont-Master“. For such a reordening its necessary to combine information about the used paper with metadatas (f.e. artists, format, titel, date indications, printer etc.). This is the aim of heridate.